garabato
English
Noun
garabato (uncountable)
- Uncaria guianensis, a plant found in Guyana.
Galician
Etymology
From a substrate language, perhaps from the same origin that carba and carballo; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent").[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈβato̝/
Noun
garabato m (plural garabatos)
- a small twig
- Synonyms: billote, garabullo
- pitchfork
- Synonyms: forca, forcada, galleta
Derived terms
- Garabatos
- garabito
- garabizo
- garabullo
References
- “garau” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “garabato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “garabato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “garabato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “garabato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Spanish
Etymology
DLE indicates Iberian [Term?] origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈbato/ [ɡa.ɾaˈβ̞a.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: ga‧ra‧ba‧to
Noun
garabato m (plural garabatos)
- doodle, scribble (small mindless sketch)
- scribble, scratching (illegible writing)
- swear word
- Synonyms: disparate, palabrota
- a type of hook
- a type of hoe
- gibberish
Derived terms
- garabatear
Further reading
- “garabato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014